quartz/content/notes/business-functions.md

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Business functions

Business functions

• what the business ought to be doing
• not
  • who, how, stucture, tech

each business function becomes a set of features within an info system

1 Id business functions

• verb phrases
  • id what the business ought to be doing ⇒ e.g., "accept payment from customer"
  • id how => "we accept payments online banking and credit card"
  • always ask "what is the objective"
• remove redundancies
• model the id'd functions as use cases

2 Use case

"A list of actions defining the interactions betweeen a role and a system to achiece a goal" high level description of how people interact with a system

story of how the business works

should be:

• simple
• aimed at stakeholders
• understandable by non-tech people
• should use ubiquitous language
• also useful for system devs

can use text (Cockburn, fowler) or diagrams (function catalog, UML case diagrams)

3 UML

unified modeling language

• use case - class - state - activity - sequence - deployment etc